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A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.

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PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
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Body Fortune Goodness Purity Uncomfortable
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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Confession Law Prayer Universe Worth
MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people’s beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
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Belief Body History Invention Original People True
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Ambition Death Desire Enemy Friendship
Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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Animal Digest Eat Goodness Man Science
Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
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Box Defend Democracy Stage
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Assasination Harmony Instrument
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Arrangement Classification Ignorance Knowledge Small
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Act Repeat Word
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Machine Technology Transformation
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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Angry Best Regret Talk Yourself
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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Country Fools Freedom Instrument Power
Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Body Decay Life Selfish
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Brain Science Thinking
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Coward Emergency Himself Legs Thinking

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